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CONOR MCGREGOR’s long-awaited return to the Octagon will take place at UFC 229, it has been announced.

McGregor, 30, hasn’t set foot inside the Octagon since claiming the lightweight title 20 months ago in the main event of UFC 205, where he became the promotion’s first simultaneous two-weight world champion.

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A bout between McGregor and Nurmagomedov has been high on many mixed martial arts fans’ wish list ever since UFC 205, where the Irishman was on the receiving end of a WWE worthy call out from his successor at the summit of the lightweight division.